MAGA bomber suspect Cesar Sayoc was banned from mother's home over his support of Trump

By Emilie Ruscoe and Leonard Greene

|new york daily news|

Oct 28, 2018 | 2:20 PM

Federal authorities arrested Cesar Sayoc in Florida on Friday, October 26, 2018 in connection to the mailed explosive devices (pipe bombs) sent to political leaders and outspoken Trump critics in October 2018. (Handout)

The Trump-touting, pizza-delivering strip club DJ accused of sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats across the country fell out with his own mother over his right-wing vitriol and was barred from her Florida home, a source who knows the family said.

The last straw for accused MAGA-bomber Cesar Sayoc Jr. was when he appeared at his mother’s condo complex in a Make America Great Hat in 2016, said the source.

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After that his mother asked security not to let him in to come visit her anymore — not because she was scared, but because she didn’t want him to tarnish her reputation as an upstanding Democrat in her politically engaged and progressive community.

“When he came out as a Republican, that was the last straw that broke the camel's back,” the family contact said. “That was it, because one day, he came in a red hat, with 'Trump,' and that was it — ‘No, I don't want to see him in my apartment.’”

Sayoc, 56, is accused of sending at least 14 explosive devices to prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Sayoc, who was arrested Friday — even as packages were still on their way — has been charged with illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former Presidents and certain other persons, assaulting current and former federal officers, interstate transportation of an explosive, and threatening interstate communications.

The source said Sayoc would come by to hit his mother up for money, and would occasionally visit the building when delivering pizzas for Dominos.

When he wasn’t delivering food or allegedly making and mailing bombs, Sayoc was playing tunes at a local strip club. It was there that a surveillance camera caught him reading newspaper clippings just hours before he was arrested.

It was unclear what he was reading, but most newspapers were filled with stories about the explosive devices.

According to ABC News, Sayoc was shuffling through press clippings at the Ultra Gentlemen's Club in West Palm Beach in the early-morning hours before he was arrested around noon Friday in the parking lot of an AutoZone car parts store in Plantation, Fla., about 40 minutes south of the club.

A club dancer said Sayoc seemed to be distracted in the hours before his arrest, making several mistakes on the turntable as she was performing. She said she even asked a manager to talk to him about it.

“When he came in, he just wasn't paying attention,” the dancer said. “And he was mixing the songs wrong, like you could never tell when a song was ending. He just wasn't paying attention.”

She said Sayoc never talked politics in the club.

“No one could believe it,” she said of Sayoc’s arrest. “I mean, the whole day was like, crazy. It's one of those things that you just can't fathom.”

He was apparently living out of his van, which was plastered with pro-Trump stickers and decals denouncing prominent Democrats.

Authorities, who found a printer, stamps, paper, an unidentified powder and soldering equipment in the van, said Sayoc was likely living in the van and may have used it to build the bombs.